The Sunny Side of Ireland: How to see it by the Great Southern and Western RailwayO'Mahony, John
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The Sunny Side of Ireland: How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
O'Mahony, John
Ireland -- Guidebooks
No. 8.--By boat to Ormonde's Island; car along shore of Clonea Lake
to Inchiquin, Glen and Cascade, thence by Derreen or coast road.
(Fare, _10s._, not included.) Return by boat (four-oared). _20s._
No. 9.--By boat to the Caves, and into Ardgroom Harbour; car by
Eyeries to Castletown-Bere, Dunboy Castle, and back (fare _10s._,
not included). Return by boat (four-oared). _20s._
Excursions by Steam Launch will also be organised to the Caves,
Ardgroom, Derrynane, and other places of interest on the Kenmare
River.
[Illustration: Cycling at Parknasilla.]
[Illustration]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Blackwater at Kenmare.]
The demesne around the hotel comprises one hundred acres of beautiful
land, where tropical flora flourish all the year round. The meadows
trim, with daisies pied, there are on every mossy bank the dewy lips of
_"Violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's
breath."_
The road to Kenmare lies high above the sea. Ardgroom is hiding under
the Caha mountains, with Glenbeg Lake behind, in the little valley.
Beneath Derrenamackan the lashing seas wage perpetual warfare against
the rocks. By the Eskdhu, or Blackwater Bridge, amid the dense foliage
of the trees, a waterfall bleats from the thicket with plaintive murmur.
Then it breaks itself free, and amid rocks, and briars, and tangled
underwood, rushes wildly towards the sea. Between us and the ocean is
Dromore Castle, the residence of one of the heads of a sept of the
O'Mahony clan. In the demesne are the ruins of Cappacross, a stronghold
of the O'Sullivans. Dunkerron Castle, on the shore, gives its name to
the islands in the bay.
[Illustration]
County Clare.
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Dromoland Castle.]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Ennistymon.]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Lisdoonvarna Spa.]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Kilkee.]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Amphitheatre at Kilkee.]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Look-out Cliff, Kilkee.]
[Illustration: Golfing at Lahinch]
[Illustration: _Photo, Lawrence, Dublin._ Golfing, Lahinch.]
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